T-Mobile has announced a number of new partners for its BingeOn program, including YouTube, Discovery Go, Redbull TV and others. John Legere took to Twitter with some stats that the company has collected, like that millions of subscribers are now streaming more than twice the amount they were before BingeOn, and that on the T-Mobile network you get 480p Netflix instead of the 360p that others are offering.

Update: AT&T has send Android Central a statement disputing T-Mobile's claims that AT&T only offers 360p streaming of Netflix on its network:

"Once again, T-Mobile is not giving you the complete facts. We do not reduce the resolution of any video on our network – in fact, our customers on 4G LTE can get much higher resolution than T-Mobile's optimized 480p limit."

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Wow.... Forget the net neutrality thing for a minute...whatever side your on. This is amazing.
All the kids do today...say 15/16 and under...is listen and watch music and vids on YT. I see it with my kids and all their friends.
Could you imagine att or verizon offering something like this?.. Lol

I've got unlimited data on T-mobile and use binge on. It's perfectly fine for casual quality. And I'm happy to compromise so that T-Mo will hopefully be less likely to yank unlimited data down the road!

Hell yes. I've been watching Netflix and Hulu all the time on my laptop now being tethered to my phone. I still watch YouTube way too much on my phone and laptop. But now I can watch as much YouTube as I want and not have to worry teaching my 14 GB tethering limit. Huge win. Still want them to add quello so I can watch concerts again but Amazon technically has it as an add on.

Fantastic option for those on restricted data plans. Net Neutrality complaints IMO is a bunch of bull shirt. Before YouTube signed on BingeOn sucked, now the most used video service signed on and they are loving it its back to net Neutrality complaints. My sister who has a finite amount of data lobes it, she's disabled and without Netflix and now YouTube she is in heaven. Thank You T-Mobile, Thank You John Legere.

Because of bandwidth, Binge-on is limited to 480p which is really a quite small stream for instance on netflix 480p is only around 1 mbps
Compared to HD streams of 3 - 6 mbps.

an unlimited user watching internet video takes up 3 to 6 times the bandwidth, giving everyone unlimited would bring the network to it's knees.
That's why at the same time as introducing binge-on they increased the price of unlimited to $95.
T-mobile's unlimited users are expensive for them to maintain, while they aren't canceling unlimited, they are trying to make their teired data options more appealing to save network bandwidth.

Really surprised to see YouTube included in BingeOn. If anything, T-Mobile's backlash towards Google would've put them off from ever supporting it.

The only potential problem I see now is that YouTube is one of the most popular video streaming sure vices as everyone uses it. Will T-Mobile be able to handle all the added network traffic once more subscribers get word of this?

This is a 480p stream. I'm guessing if everyone in America had this and was watching YT simultaneously it still wouldn't be an issue. (that's a guess but I've read up on this and 480p is peanuts regarding bandwith

The difference in quality is definitely very noticeable. When BingeOn was first activated, I didn't know that I'd been automatically opted in to it, and I noticed a huge drop in quality. I actually discovered that I'd been opted in while I was in the process of trying to figure out why my Netflix video quality had gone to crap, and that was only a difference between 1080p and 480p.